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Thursday, July 26, 2012

"about a return to Common Sense"

Well,
here I go with an idea I’ve been mulling over for years. My argument is that
there is almost nothing in our national discourse that is untainted by greed
and the need to feel superior to others merely because we were born in the USA.
I hold it to be self-evident that almost no American actually reads and follows
the Constitution and the New Testament. What we take to be news is mostly
opinion and propaganda. We, the people, have been fooled and we act like fools
because of that.

At
the end of WWII we were fooled, first of all, into believing that even though
the US helped win WWII, the Russians were now our number one enemy, that they
were out-spending us on the machinery of war, that they were brainwashing us,
that they actually COULD take over the whole world. Meanwhile, The USSR was
starving and in no way capable of taking over the world. And they had died in
massive numbers to aid our fight against Hitler. They had been our ally for
God’s sake. I bring this up, not because my blog will be about Russia, but to
show an example of how we were fooled by the secret agencies that grew out of
WWII. I don’t even know how many there are. Let’s see, the CIA, the NSA, they
spring to mind. But do not all American military branches have their own secret
agencies? Were not private companies granted the status of our military
(Blackwater, aka whatever), except that they were MUCH better paid! Why was
there the destruction of 9/11? Had we not paid enough taxes to support our
spies, both good and bad? Shouldn’t the cockpit doors on our airliners have
been reinforced, locked doors, ever since the Palestinian hijackings of the
1960s? Shouldn’t the FBI have listened to the field ops that reported
middle-eastern non-citizens taking flying lessons, but didn’t care to learn how
to land? Good God! And NO ONE was fired or demoted after 9/11 except the field
ops?

Recently,
a relative of mine died. She was in her 70s, had undergone open-heart surgery,
and her husband was a Baptist minister. Guess what? An autopsy was ordered to
determine cause of death! The US investigates plane crashes to the nth degree,
but Bush said it would be too troubling to America to do a scientific analysis
of the debris at the World Trade Center? No autopsy for the body of the only
attack on America since Pearl Harbor? That makes no sense, unless there was
something to hide. You see, we’ve lost our common sense. We are no longer an
informed nation; we are a nation allowing the super rich to form US into what
THEY want. I’m sick of it.

The
same people who will believe anything a Republican says deny any truth to
anything Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi say. People admire the “Christian” act of
burning the Koran and other acts of phony or ignorant preachers and can’t see
with their own eyes that President Obama has spent his presidency reaching out,
not getting angry(even when
called a liar during his State of the Union address). In other words, he
behaves in a humble Christian manner, on our national political stage. And
let’s not forget something, lest you think it’s all because he’s black. The
vicious attacks on President and First Lady Clinton began immediately upon his
assuming the office. Let’s see, they killed someone in the White House, and…
and… and… The battle goes back, way back, yet we Americans aren’t allowed to
know the truth. It’s classified Top Secret. So are the lies. How can all these
people believe Obama is not a US citizen unless the CIA, NSA, and all levels of
spies know it? Why do they not stir up a fuss with them? It makes no common
sense.

So
my blogs are about common sense and finding that common sense in two important
documents: the Bible and the Constitution. Actually, I’m only using some verses
from the Old Testament book of Leviticus, the RED letters (Jesus’s words) in
the New Testament, and a copy of the Constitution that includes the original
language as well as strike-outs of that original language as changed by
amendments.

So
there’s the starting point. We, the People cannot any longer know what our
government is really doing. We cannot believe most of what is said on the radio
and TV and written in newspapers. So, let’s go back to original documents and
apply common sense to them in light of today’s America. Get your Bible (red
letter edition) and your Constitution and let’s go!